Auspicious Time

Thursday, November 29, 2007

So astrologers told former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda that he should inaugurate the JD (S) political meet around 10 AM since the scheduled meeting time of 11:30 was inauspicious. So he arrives 80 minutes ahead of schedule (which is unheard of in always-late Gowda’s political life), inaugurates the meet and speaks to empty chairs.

The stupidity of all this boggles the mind. Have all the politicians of Karnataka lost their marbles at the same time?

A few days ago, his illustrious son H D Revenna had opined that Yeddy lost his chair because he had conducted a homa on a new moon day (amavasya)! Here are Revenna’s pearls:

“For the sake of power, he visited all the temples and sought the blessings of numerous Gods. He also took bath at Srirangapatna, but then what to do, power is not written on his forehead. Will anyone conduct homa on Amavasye?” he asked with a surprised look at a press meet on Saturday.

The day we get rid of them all will be auspicious.

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Maharaja Yeddy

Thursday, November 29, 2007

yeddy.jpeg It is said politics is about symbols. What symbolic message Maharaja Yeddy is sending isn’t clear. The earlier Dharma Yatra has now become Jana Jagruti Yatra (People Awakening Yatra). But what does one awaken with a sword and a megaphone, while being adorned like royalty in a shiny saffron shawl and Mysore Peta?

Shamelessness has no boundaries, it seems!

Yeddy has the audacity to compare himself to Lokanayak Jayaprakash Narayan:

“The way late Jayaprakash Narayan got the support of the people, especially the youth, during the Emergency, BJP has been receiving tumultuous welcome wherever Jana Jagruthi Yathre has visited,” observed former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa.

Funny. His own partymen don’t seem to support Yeddy’s Yatra and reportedly have complained to one and all in Delhi about him not including others. The people of Karnataka are reported to be cursing Yeddy and his bandwagon for creating traffic mayhem.

In the meanwhile, Yeddy and his sword go on a yatra.

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Blackest Magic

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

As Yedy dissembles, I am inspired to return to blogging.

Watch this video and be amazed. Needless to say, I am very envious of our panchakoti (five crore) Kannada brethren for their good fortune to watch all this live, and be entertained 24-7 by Yedy and Deve Gowda & co.

Since October, Yedy and Deve Gowda seem to have spent all their time in temples all over India, performing special pujas and homas. None of that has made a darn difference, to them or to us. Wait. Yedy, a Lingayat, even had Brahmin priests do Vedic rituals to appease gods. I wonder what all the Lingayat swamis, into whose arms Yedi (before he became Yedy, on the advice of a numerologist) rushed each time he was betrayed, had to say about that!

One always suspected Deve Gowda to be Dhritarastra, but I think he secretly wants to be Bhasmasura. He has succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest imagination, setting fire on all that comes in his path.

Perhaps, as Yedy claims, Gowda (and his sons) even performed maatamantra, black magic. Today, Deccan Herald reports: ‘Traces of black magic being performed were found at the Shikaripur helipad on Wednesday’.

I only ask: what did we do to deserve them? Is there anybody - god, astrologer, priest, performer of black magic - who could get rid of them all?

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